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the last smart thing lindsay graham ever said was "if we nominate donald trump, we will get destroyed… and we will deserve it"

i got this quote 95% correct from memory. that's how important it was. stupid useless toady fucker.

The thing that bugs me the most here is that Trump, a man who dodged the draft, is saluting. You are genuinely not supposed to salute if you're a lifelong civilian. You're supposed to remove your hat and put your hand over your heart.

Stolen valor, right here.

Cookie, a black cat, with his beloved plush carrot

Welp, assuming I ever was the most important thing in his life, I can see I have been replaced by Large Carrot.

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

In 2013 Aaron Swartz committed suicide for facing 35 years in prison for mass downloading scientific articles.

13 years later, Meta is almost getting away with an infraction orders of magnitude larger.

The law didn't change.

torrentfreak.com/uploading-pi...

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

For the first time, I hosted folks up in the Sea Stories Lounge. Everyone seemed pretty impressed, and I swear it looks brighter in photos than in real life. What a joyous being of tiki, friends, exotica, and escape. Thanks for making my life better, everyone!

A lot of mysteries are written in first person. It can help the reader "know" what the detective knows.

(Of course a writer can also work around that...The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd is one example.)

ROTARY DIAL PHONE spotted in Bergerac season 6.

William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, two years before Star Trek, co-starring in an episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (The Project Strigas Affair, S1E9). They’re only in this one scene together.

Photo of my fluffy white cat Francie, curled up asleep under my arm with one of her forelegs draped across me like a hug. I’m wearing blue and white striped pajamas with black piping.

One of my favorite things in the whole world is when I come home after being out for a few hours and Francie is always like "Peep! Peep!" and she doesn't want food, she doesn't want toys, she leads me to the couch because she specifically needs me to lie down for a snuggle. 🥹

A cool thing about my Seattle experience was that for a time, I lived off Yesler and worked in Magnolia, so the days that I walked to work, it was literally uphill both ways.

An imagine of a pair of hands making a heart around pink and purple fireworks in the background

It's time to start making your plans!

Romancing the Vote returns July 1st - July 5th, 2026!

* authors, start annotating those books
* artists, start making that art
* experts, start plotting your consultations

Stay updated: updates.romancingthevote.com

A photo of a mural on an outdoor building that shows a solar system in glass window in the hills of Scotland

A photo of a mural on an outdoor building that shows a solar system in glass window in the hills of Scotland

I paired this mural in Perth, Scotland in 2024 and the owners just sent me these photos of the flowers they planted to match coming in! 🥹

Iran's FM condemns US attack on Qeshm's freshwater desalination plant, warns of grave consequences US President Donald Trump announced that Iran promised not to attack its neighbours anymore

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant.
If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination.
timesofoman.com/article/1691...

Just sitting here for the last 20 minutes waiting for the Democrats to let me into the caucus meeting!

There are a limited number of times one can be told "no you didn't really cook dinner" because you didn't grind the flour for the noodles and pick the sauce tomatoes off the vine before going "you're right, I didn't cook, I don't cook, I'll just be over here assembling & heating edible items" *but*🧵

Canadian Grindr rules. I swear to God, a guy just sent me a dick pic next to a Tim Hortons cup to indicate its relative size and proportion

People are missing the point in replying to this. Shes not a billionaire because she gives her money away to charity and help people ten times over.

But think about all the money she gives away TO help. She should have been one waaaaay before now

She is quite literally the billionaire that ISNT.

FFS, @seananmcguire.bsky.social's "Kingdom Of Needle And Bone" was supposed to stay fiction.

Stop implementing Torment Nexus, please!

Parallels with managerial workers at meat packing plants betting on which workers would catch COVID while withholding workplace mitigations for said workers www.cnn.com/2020/11/19/b...

Also somebody's gotta tell Pete suits that small only work for the shots of Daniel Craig in Bond when he's not moving. If he's gotta move, those shots have suits two sizes bigger.

Judge orders feds to return ICE detainees' missing property within 30 days A judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security and Minnesota U.S. Attorney Daniel Rosen to either return lost property to released detainees unlawfully arrested during Operation Metro Surge or pr...

A federal judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to return or replace property taken from unlawfully arrested ICE detainees and released without their belongings, giving the government 30 days to comply.

Jesus Christ

As pointed out to me by @galatfemme.bsky.social, Hemlock & Silver by @tkingfisher.com is on US ebook sale for $3, which I misread as $2, so I bought more copies for random giveaway than I'd intended. Oops.

Some of the responses were going into "Claude is doing things its programmers didn't intend and can't explain," to which my response is, pretty much all software does that at some point. It's called bugs. We fix them.

They sat there, feeling happy together.

My stance on this, for some time, is that not being comfortable doing "ethnic" outreach among senior campaign staff is disqualifying and segregationist, because POC organizers, of course know how to organize white people, why is the opposite not also an expectation?

The BIG DUMB WAR CYCLE HAWKS ITCH FOR BATTLE IT WILL BE A SPLENDID LITTLE WAR! 9/11 FALSELY INVOKED I'M SURE THEY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE HIJACKERS. BOOSTERS OF PREVIOUS WAR ALL OVER TV BOMBS AWAY! MILLIONS PROTEST AROUND THE WORLD AND ARE IGNORED THIS WAR IS BUNK TOO PATRIOTISM OF OPPOSITION QUESTIONED SUPPORT OUR TROOPS YOU TRAITOR WAR A BLOODY DISASTER WITHOUT END WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN? CONVENTIONAL WISDOM FORMS THAT WAR WAS A MISTAKE, BUT NO ONE HELD ACCOUNTABLE HOW'D WE GET INTO THAT MESS? BEATS ME!

This week's comic: The Big Dumb War Cycle

Fluffy gray tabby asleep in gonna form, curled on his side with chin upturned. He graces us with one ridiculous fang, and a pink blep.

anyway good night